One State and Apartheid Flashcards
What does Apartheid mean in Afrikaans?
Separateness
When was Apartheid institutionalised in South Africa?
1948
What percentage of the South African population was ‘white’ and black non-citizen?
12% vs 77%
How had the international climate helped sustain South African Apartheid?
Role as a NATO ally
What does Mamdani argue provided the anti-apartheid movement with momentum ?
Broadened struggle to all opponents of apartheid - transcended racialism. Provided an alternative - spoke for all SA
Which Israeli politicians have made the Apartheid analogy?
Barak, Olmert
What does Zreik argue about Oslo?
Continuation of Occupation by remote control
Who says that the physical fragmentation of the Palestinian territories has resulted in their becoming analogous to Bantustans?
Farsakh
When did Arafat make the comparison between SA and I?
1974 speech at UN General Assembly
Who argues that by the terms of international law there is Apartheid in the OPT?
Peteet
When was the Sharpeville massacre and Soweto student shootings?
1963 and 1976
What is a key lesson that Mamdani argues BDS activists must take?
Inclusion of anti-Zionist Jews - need to construct unity from below
What provides the legal definition of apartheid?
1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
What is the legal definition of apartheid?
Acts designed to divide the population, including through creation of reserves, ghettos, expropriation of landed property, prohibition of mixed marriages
Who argues that the rights discourse is limited in its applicability to Palestine?
Zreik
Who stresses the importance of historical context - esp. struggle between two external entities and within single political framework?
Greenstein
Who argued in 2006 that the system in the WB and G “far exceeds any similar practices in apartheid SA”?
South African lawyer, former special rapporteur on Palestine to UN HRC - Dugard
Who points out that SA is not a benchmark against which all claims of apartheid must be measured?
Peteet
What was a turning point in the creeping apartheid?
2005 Gaza Disengagement
What does Falah argue has been Israel’s policy following the 2nd intifada?
Spatial demolition and strangulation aimed at unilateral separation and territorial dismemberment
What does Abunimah argue the Palestinians need to build?
Broad campaign based on universal principles
What proposal was made in 2002?
Arab Peace Initiative at Arab League Summit
Who was one of the first to argue there was a one state reality?
Benvenisti
In a 1999 poll, what % of J and WBG respondents favoured binational solution?
15 and 20%
